2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Damning Hillary Clinton with Faint Praise [View all]MineralMan
(147,067 posts)of electing Democrats, rather than Republicans to legislative and executive offices. During campaign season, I find attacks on our Democratic general election candidates to be counter-productive of the goal of getting them elected and preventing the election of the Republicans running against them.
I argue against actions and statements that interfere with that goal. Do I agree in all ways with Clinton or any candidate? Of course not. I never have and never will. However, during general election campaign season, I stress the positive when discussing candidates I support. I tend to do that after they are elected, as well, since I find that to work better than attacking them.
However, I make a practice of communicating my disagreements with elected officials directly to them. Since I have been a supporter during campaigns, my communications are generally more often read than discarded. I try very hard to make my points in the ways that have the most chance for accomplishing my goals.
I have never found public attacks of those who have been elected to be of any use, whatsoever. Maybe that's just me. But I often make arguments directly to them for positions I think are better.
You do what you want. I'll do the same.